Travel grants for artists

The Foundation Open Ukraine provides travel grants for travel costs for Ukrainian artists to exchange artistic experience at the international level and to improve cooperation between Ukrainian and foreign artists. These grants give Ukrainian artists the opportunity to present their achievements around the world.

Grantees are chosen monthly based on the decision of the Program Council.

Kateryna BABKINA, Writer and screenwriter, Presented Ukrainian video-poetry at the Festival of Ukrainian and post-Soviet cinema KINOFEST NYC, The U.S.A.

Victoria LESHCHENKO, Programme Coordinator of the International Documentary Film Festival on Human Rights Docudays UA, Participated in the International Documentary Festival Visions du Reel, Switzerland.

Lada NAKONECHNA, Artist and R.E.P. group member, Participate in "Revisiting Footnotes" exhibition and symposium, where presented her work “Earlier. Now. Further.”, and presented R.E.P. group activities to the symposium’s participants, Latvia.

Tymofiy HAVRYLIV, Writer, Participate in the biggest literature festival Norsk Litteraturfestival in the countries of the Northern Europe, Norway.

Oksana ZABUZHKO, Writer, Held artistic meeting on the occasion of publishing her novel «Museum of Abandonned Secrets» in English, The United Kingdom.

Vasyl Viter, filmmaker for the presentation of film “Love Given by the Stars”, which is dedicated to Franz Liszt stay in Kyiv at the international television festival “Golden Prague” in Prague, Czech Republic.

Lesya Horova, Honored Artist of Ukraine for participation in the Days of Ukrainian Culture in Antalya, Turkey.

Oleksandr Danylenko, filmmaker for the presentation of music video for the band DakhaBrakha “Carpathian Rap” at the International Animation Festival in Portugal.

Andriy Kurkov and Lyubko Deresh, writers to participate in the promotional activities of the Ukrainian delegation within the Festival of European Literature in Cognac, France.

Vadym Larchikov, actor of duet Violoncellissimo to participate at the International Festival “100 Years of Russian Futurism” in Moscow, Russia.

Alevtyna Dobin, laureate of international competitions, student at the P.I. Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine to participate in international master classes of maestro Vladimir Viardo in Nova Gorica, Slovenia.

Maryna Zheleznyak, filmmaker so she could get consultations on film editing of her documentary “Hryhoriy Ivanovych” from world renowned filmmaker Valdís Óskarsdóttir in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Nataliya Danshyna, singer to participate in the Early Music Festival in Utrecht, Netherlands.